♨️ Hot off the press: Researchers at #CharitéBerlin & FMP have developed a fundamentally new therapeutic approach to the hereditary disease #CysticFibrosis! They succeeded in repairing the causal cell defect with a #nanobody – a tiny antibody fragment – in the lab.
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♨️ Hot off the press: Forschende von #CharitéBerlin & FMP haben einen grundlegend neuen Therapieansatz gegen die Erbkrankheit #Mukoviszidose entwickelt! Es ist ihnen gelungen, den ursächlichen Zelldefekt mit einem #Nanobody – einem winzigen Antikörperbaustein – im Labor zu reparieren.
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Even in an ordinary pregnancy, the journey that sperm must take to reach the egg is stunningly complicated; learn more from our 2025 comic.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2025/how-sperm-navigate-the-path-to-fertilization-of-egg
The goal of in vitro fertilization is a healthy baby. But a lot has to go right along the way, from complex medical procedures to mundane management of medications and paperwork.
At the Pudding, Lam Thuy Vo tells her IVF story via an illustrated interactive: https://pudding.cool/2026/03/ivf/
“Emperor penguins have braved cold, storms, starvation and predation to breed, ensuring their population survives. But climate change might defeat the iconic Antarctic birds.”
👀 On our radar: Emperor penguins endangered by mass drownings of chicks
✍️ Carolyn Gramling, Science News
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/emperor-penguins-endangered-extinction-iucn
[1/2] You're a scientist and wish to influence #policymaking? This paper tells you how:
👉 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0232-y
The authors have 8 recommendations:
1️⃣ Do high quality research
2️⃣ Make your research relevant and readable
3️⃣ Understand policy processes
4️⃣ Be accessible to policymakers: engage routinely, flexible, and humbly
5️⃣ Decide if you want to be an issue advocate or honest broker
⤵️ ...
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Many academics have strong incentives to influence policymaking, but may not know where to start. We searched systematically for, and synthesised, the ‘how to’ advice in the academic peer-reviewed and grey literatures. We condense this advice into eight main recommendations: (1) Do high quality research; (2) make your research relevant and readable; (3) understand policy processes; (4) be accessible to policymakers: engage routinely, flexible, and humbly; (5) decide if you want to be an issue advocate or honest broker; (6) build relationships (and ground rules) with policymakers; (7) be ‘entrepreneurial’ or find someone who is; and (8) reflect continuously: should you engage, do you want to, and is it working? This advice seems like common sense. However, it masks major inconsistencies, regarding different beliefs about the nature of the problem to be solved when using this advice. Furthermore, if not accompanied by critical analysis and insights from the peer-reviewed literature, it could provide misleading guidance for people new to this field.
“The parasites are programmed to get up to our heads. We are programmed to let them get inside our minds.”
👀 On our radar: Beware the head-lice wars
✍️ Daniel Engber, The Atlantic
If I review one manuscript and then review the revised version/s, how many manuscripts have I reviewed?
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New Scientist just dropped a thought-provoking one:
We might be wrong about humanity’s near-extinction event.
Not the usual “we almost died out” story – but a twist that changes how we see our own survival.
Eine Stadt will sich gegen Starkregen schützen. Klingt lösbar – bis Behörden, Genehmigungen, Datenlücken und gegenseitige Abhängigkeiten ins Spiel kommen. 🌀
Genau hier setzt TIMEA an: ein Ansatz zur Mehrebenenanalyse, der komplexe Entscheidungsprozesse strukturierbar macht.
Mehr dazu:
https://campuls.hof-university.de/wissenschaft-forschung/mehrebenenanalyse-wie-timea-unterstuetzt-komplexe-entscheidungen-zu-treffen/
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